You’ve seen hail, but you’ve probably never seen hail this big!

On April 28th, at 2:00 pm, Wenshan City, Yunnan Province, China, experienced localized short-term strong convective weather and a world-rare hailstorm, which covered the ground like snow in most parts of the city, just like traveling to the “Ice Age”.

On the morning of the 28th, Wenshan was still hot and sunny, but in the afternoon, there was thunder and lightning, the wind was howling, and the rain was pouring down, and roughly at about 2:40, the sky suddenly started to hail, and it fell from the sky like a blanket, and the whole process lasted only about 10 minutes, and the streets of Wenshan were covered with snow-like hail.

Or because such a big hail scene is too rare, making Wenshan hail in Yunnan quickly on the hot search, many small videos have the scene of Wenshan hail, full of hail landing on the ground when smashing a huge noise, covering the ground thicker and thicker, many plants are smashed, the video can also be seen in Wenshan city full of hail ice blocks, the thickness of up to 20 cm or so.

In Wenshan seven flowers square and other places, many cars were trapped by the hail around, people wearing short-sleeved pants, with shovels and other tools in the streets to clean up the thick hail, some people said that the local 80- and 90-year-old people said they had never seen such large hail. The local said the sudden rainstorm hailstorm intensity, wide range, the disaster involved 3 streets 7 townships, has caused more than 10,000 acres of crops in the farmland corn, potatoes, vegetables, about 2,000 acres of herbs Panax notoginseng damage, also caused a large number of agricultural infrastructure damage, also caused a large number of branches broken in Wenshan city, many waterlogging, some vehicles were flooded, people and animals are inevitably casualties .